Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Victoria, Australia: The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is located in the traditional Country of the Gunditjmara Aboriginal people in south-eastern Australia. The three serial components of the property contain one of the world's most extensive and oldest aquaculture systems... Budj Bim, also known as Mount Eccles, is a dormant volcano near Macarthur in southwestern Victoria, Australia. It lies within the geologically-defined area known as the Newer Volcanics Province, which is the youngest volcanic area in Australia and stretches from western Victoria to south-eastern South Australia. Wikipedia
Ancient civilizations developed clever solutions to their unique challenges and environments, and learning from those engineers can help us build a greener w...
I adore seeing things like this. Much of these were built for very specific demands at the time, but they can be used for many purposes now as possibly much more efficient references. And they really reflect the landscape and culture that they were made for. I really hope now to reemphasize that engineering and technology aren’t a singular pathway of one upward improvement, but from a lot of efforts and adaptations for what’s necessary and in demand for a specific need.
These were marvels of innovation then and they’re marvels of innovation today.
Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?
Long ago, four giant beings arrived in southeast Australia. Three strode out to other parts of the continent, but one crouched in place. His body transformed into a volcano called Budj Bim, and his teeth became the lava the volcano spat out.
Now, scientists say this tale—told by the Aboriginal Gunditjmara people of the area—may have some basis in fact. About 37,000 years ago, Budj Bim and another nearby volcano formed through a rapid series of eruptions, new evidence reveals, suggesting the legend may be the oldest story still being told today.
The study raises a provocative possibility, says Sean Ulm, an archaeologist at James Cook University, Cairns, who was not involved with the work. “It is an interesting proposition to think about these traditions extending for tens of thousands of years.” But he and others urge caution, as no other stories passed down orally are believed to have survived that long. Read more.
“At the dawn of time, it was the Ancestral Beings – part human, part beast – who brought what was previously barren land to life. At the end of the Dreaming journeys, the Ancestral Being left aspects of themselves behind, transformed into part of the landscape.” — The Gunditjmara People and G. Wettenhall
What can Australia’s Budj Bim volcano, which inspired the world’s oldest story and earliest form of aquaculture, teach us about contemplative science, environmental sustainability, and spirituality?
The ancient volcanic crater and the C19th painter.
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901) Austrian; (active in Australia 1852-82)
[image id=EXHI014644] Tower Hill Early in August 1855, Eugene von Guérard was travelling by steamer towards his Melbourne home, returning fr
Von Guerard's painting of Tower Hill was used as documentary evidence to restore degraded country after the establishment of the site as National Park.
An extensive undulating basaltic plain in south-western Victoria, stretching from Melbourne west to Portland, south to Colac and north to Beaufort. It is characterised by vast open areas of grasslands, small patches of open woodland, stony rises denoting old lava flows, the low peaks of long extinct volcanoes dotting the landscape and numerous scattered large shallow lakes with extensive wetlands. The grassland communities are floristically rich, usually dominated by Kangaroo Grass with a wide variety of perennial herbs. The open and fertile grassy plains were one of the first areas settled for agriculture in Victoria and native grasslands are now reduced to a few thousand hectares in extent. The major land use is agriculture, especially sheep and cattle grazing and cropping.
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guérard (17 November 1811 – 17 April 1901) was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 until 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was unsuccessful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. By the early 1860s von Guerard was recognised as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. Indeed, his view of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. libraryofnature.com
Az ausztrál őslakos gunditjmara közösség története akár 37 ezer éve terjedhet szájról szájra.
“Vannak persze régészek és antropológusok, akik óvatosságra intenek, mivel nem ismerni egyáltalán példát arra, hogy egy történet ennyire hosszan fennmaradt volna szájhagyomány útján.“ - a Nagy Medvével kapcsolatos történet (amiben a “medve” a Nagygöncöl “négyzete”, és három vadász, a “kocsirúd” üldözi folyamatosan az északi égi pólus körül, a Föld forgásának megfelelően, egész éjjel) annyira elterjedt, hogy 30-40 ezer évesnek becsülik, ismert pl. Amerikában is.
Vestígios de culturas indígenas nas Canárias e na Austrália na lista do Património da Humanidade
Vestígios de culturas indígenas nas Canárias e na Austrália na lista do Património da Humanidade
A UNESCO inscreveu este domingo na lista do Património Mundial a paisagem espanhola de Risco Caído e as montanhas sagradas da Gran Canaria. Os dois locais reúnem vestígios de uma cultura aborígine que habitou a ilha vulcânica até o fim do século XV.
Descrita pelo escritor espanhol Miguel de Unamuno como “a tempestade petrificada”, a paisagem, localizada no interior da ilha de Gran Canaria, é…
